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<p>If Klammer’s brink-of-disaster Olympic downhill run was skiing’s exclamation point on the 1970s (see page 48), Hermann Maier’s horrendous crash at the Nagano Games was the exclamation point on the 1990s (see page 88). What made it miraculous was that after his crash Maier went on to win gold in super G and giant slalom. He finished off the winter by winning the first of his four career overall World Cup titles.</p>
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<p>Snowboarding’s version of an obsessive and promotionally talented entrepreneur like skiing’s Howard Head or Bob Lange emerged in the form of Jake Burton Carpenter, a well-spoken, neatly groomed, athletically handsome guy in his 20s. In 1977, Burton had begun to manufacture a device resembling the Snurfer, a toylike surfboard he’d ridden as a boy. Burton called his a Backyard Board. In 1980, he sold 700 boards for $49 a pop.</p>
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<div class="caption">The U.S. Ski Team reached a peak. Tamara McKinney and Phil Mahre won the 1983 World Cup titles. The U.S. boasted the best national women’s team, winning SKI Magazine’s FIS Nations Cup. At the 1984 Olympics, the team won half of the alpine gold medals.<p>Slalom racing was revolutionized with the introduction of a gate pole that hinged at snow level. Super G became a World Cup and Olympic medal event. Ingemar Stenmark retired after 86 World Cup victories, a feat still not repeated.</p></div>
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<div class="caption">Twins Steve and Phil Mahre produced one of the greatest U.S. Olympic moments at the 1984 Sarajevo games when they rose from the middle of the World Cup standings to earn slalom Silver and Gold.</div>
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<div class="caption">Three words: Playmate Shannon Tweed. To be sure, the skiing isn’t the only thing that made <em>Hot Dog...the Movie</em> a cult classic. a buxom woman in a hot tub helped. The ski footage—set against the backdrop of Squaw Valley—merely provided the non-nude scenes with equally engaging action. and some of the 1984 flick’s aerial tricks and movie stunts still hold up, a sure sign of a cult classic, and helped it earn some serious slope cred.</div>
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<div class="caption">As if the fanny pack weren’t brilliant enough, skiers in the ’80s made it, uh, better. Rear Gear was a fanny pack and insulated bota bag in one.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Feeling Detached</h4>
<div class="caption">The greatest skiing invention of the decade wasn’t a ski or a boot. It was the detachable high-speed quad chairlift, created in 1982 by Tom Clink, the lift supervisor at Breckenridge, colo. The faster lifts meant shorter lift lines and more runs per day. Lift capacity went on to increase by 56 percent at U.S. resorts.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Aahhhsome</h4>
<div class="caption">Greg Stump’s seminal movie <em>The Blizzard of Aahhh’s</em> (1988), starring Scot Schmidt and introducing wildchild Glen Plake, simply jumped off the screen. With insane skiing, a hip soundtrack and a zeitgeist of us versus them, <em>Blizzard</em> inspired a generation of skiers and filmmakers and changed the art form.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Cover Girl</h4>
<div class="caption">In a rare departure from the usual ski-action shots and athlete photos, SKI featured supermodel Carol Alt gazing out at you on its November 1987 cover. Among the biggest fashion models of the era, Alt typified ’80s ski style with her pink and purple jacket, headband and big hair.</div>
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<div class="caption">“We saw a collective desire to use fashion and color as an expression of life, enthusiasm and happiness,” says Nome Obermeyer, lead designer for the obermeyer brand, about the bright colors, shiny fabrics and wild styles characteristic of ’80s ski fashion. “Kids were evolving as skiers, and new introductions in pop culture were inspiring everyone to push the envelope with fashion and really express their individuality. For me, ’80s fashion represents this resurgence in individual expression.”</div>
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<h4 class="title">Pain Reliever</h4>
<div class="caption">The rear-entry boot eased one of the most common skier complaints: aching feet. roomy and easy to get on and off , single-buckle boots —like Salomon’s popular SX90 and SX91 models—dominated the market for recreational skiers in the ’80s. Stiffer versions aimed at racers had some success, but World Cuppers clung to top-entry boots. And manufacturers eventually decided that recreational skiers deserved better performance, even if they didn’t realize it.</div>
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http://www.skinet.com/ski/galleries/decades-1980s#commentsCompetitionGearResortsGearMountain CultureSki Resort Life75th Anniversary IssueCURRENT_SITE55574140http://www.skinet.com/CURRENT_SITE/files/_images/201111/carolaltthumb.jpg55574139carol altEighties's pop culture rocked the nation...and the ski hill. gallery55574141http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/80s.jpgThe 80's
<p>The U.S. Ski Team reached a peak. Tamara McKinney and Phil Mahre won the 1983 World Cup titles. The U.S. boasted the best national women’s team, winning SKI Magazine’s FIS Nations Cup. At the 1984 Olympics, the team won half of the alpine gold medals.</p><p>Slalom racing was revolutionized with the introduction of a gate pole that hinged at snow level. Super G became a World Cup and Olympic medal event. Ingemar Stenmark retired after 86 World Cup victories, a feat still not repeated.</p><p>Resorts introduced detachable four-seater chairlifts. Snowcats, suspended on winches, groomed the steepest slopes. Beaver Creek and Deer Valley were the last U.S. destination ski resorts built in the 20th century. As thousands moved to ski towns, 19 ski counties grew five times faster than the U.S. population. But visits to ski areas stagnated. Baby Boomers aged. The average lift-ticket price was almost five times more than 20 years earlier, outstripping the rate of inflation.</p><p>Ski areas banned the strange new tribe called snowboarders, who were a rebel force looking to rewrite the rules of the hill, much as hotdoggers did a generation before.</p>
55574150http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/mahre.jpgDouble Trouble
<p>Twins Steve and Phil Mahre produced one of the greatest U.S. Olympic moments at the 1984 Sarajevo games when they rose from the middle of the World Cup standings to earn slalom Silver and Gold.</p>
55574145http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/hotdog.jpgHot-Tub Heyday
<p>Three words: Playmate Shannon Tweed. To be sure, the skiing isn’t the only thing that made <em>Hot Dog...the Movie</em> a cult classic. a buxom woman in a hot tub helped. The ski footage—set against the backdrop of Squaw Valley—merely provided the non-nude scenes with equally engaging action. and some of the 1984 flick’s aerial tricks and movie stunts still hold up, a sure sign of a cult classic, and helped it earn some serious slope cred.</p>
55574149http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/reargear.jpgBootylicious
<p>As if the fanny pack weren’t brilliant enough, skiers in the ’80s made it, uh, better. Rear Gear was a fanny pack and insulated bota bag in one.</p>
55574144http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/detachable.jpgFeeling Detached
<p>The greatest skiing invention of the decade wasn’t a ski or a boot. It was the detachable high-speed quad chairlift, created in 1982 by Tom Clink, the lift supervisor at Breckenridge, colo. The faster lifts meant shorter lift lines and more runs per day. Lift capacity went on to increase by 56 percent at U.S. resorts.</p>
55574142http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/bliaazrdofaaahs.jpgAahhhsome
<p>Greg Stump’s seminal movie <em>The Blizzard of Aahhh’s</em> (1988), starring Scot Schmidt and introducing wildchild Glen Plake, simply jumped off the screen. With insane skiing, a hip soundtrack and a zeitgeist of us versus them, <em>Blizzard</em> inspired a generation of skiers and filmmakers and changed the art form.</p>
55574143http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/carolalt.jpgCover Girl
<p>In a rare departure from the usual ski-action shots and athlete photos, SKI featured supermodel Carol Alt gazing out at you on its November 1987 cover. Among the biggest fashion models of the era, Alt typified ’80s ski style with her pink and purple jacket, headband and big hair.</p>
55574147http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/neon.jpgDay-Glo Decade
<p>“We saw a collective desire to use fashion and color as an expression of life, enthusiasm and happiness,” says Nome Obermeyer, lead designer for the obermeyer brand, about the bright colors, shiny fabrics and wild styles characteristic of ’80s ski fashion. “Kids were evolving as skiers, and new introductions in pop culture were inspiring everyone to push the envelope with fashion and really express their individuality. For me, ’80s fashion represents this resurgence in individual expression.”</p>
55574148http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/rearentry.jpgPain Reliever
<p>The rear-entry boot eased one of the most common skier complaints: aching feet. roomy and easy to get on and off , single-buckle boots —like Salomon’s popular SX90 and SX91 models—dominated the market for recreational skiers in the ’80s. Stiffer versions aimed at racers had some success, but World Cuppers clung to top-entry boots. And manufacturers eventually decided that recreational skiers deserved better performance, even if they didn’t realize it.</p>
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<div class="caption">A generation of long-haired, pot-smoking, acrobatic hotdoggers sought to liberate skiing from what they perceived to be its long imprisonment. And they sure succeeded. Freestyle infl uenced every aspect of the sport—its language, apparel and gear, particularly ski graphics, sidecuts and lengths. The first national exhibition championship was held in 1971 in Waterville Valley, N.H. Long-forgotten cross-country touring reemerged, as did the telemark turn.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Skiing really gets sexy</h4>
<div class="caption">“Playboy and skiing both devote themselves to the pleasures of the body,” read a 1969 article in SKI, suggesting the new Lake Geneva, Wis., Playboy Club-Hotel and ski resort was a manifest union. Through the ’70s, the club and its bunnies were symbols of skiing’s sophisticated sex appeal. The club closed in 1981, but skiing’s sex appeal continues to sell the sport, if not exactly with a puffy tail.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Free to Fly</h4>
<div class="caption">With his legendary 1971 ski film, The Performers, Dick Barrymore inspired young skiers—like Wayne Wong—to throw off the shackles of restrictive European ski techniques once and for all. Wong became the face—and hair—of American freestyle skiing in the ’70s.</div>
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<h4 class="title">What, no tutus?</h4>
<div class="caption">“Unlike a freestyle collection of bodybruising tricks, ski ballet is virtually a new sport, stringing stunts together with grace and fluidity...skiing at its beautiful best,” wrote ski-ballet champ Genia Fuller in a 1974 issue of SKI. Despite the meteoric rise of stars like racer turned ski ballerina Suzy Chaffee in the mid-’70s and ski ballet’s inclusion as a demonstration event in the 1988 and 1992 Olympics, the sport is now largely a relic, outshone and outlived by the new, higher-adrenaline slopeside and park-and-pipe disciplines.</div>
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<h4 class="title">The Story of a Skier</h4>
<div class="caption">A month before Downhill Racer was released, SKI’s Morten Lund hailed its star, Robert Redford, as the first artist to adequately and appropriately “immortalize” the ski racer. Unlike previous ski films, which merely showed “spectacular scenery and good turns to both sides” or, as Redford himself put it, used skiing “as a background for a dopey teenage party film,” Downhill Racer was about the drama of the sport and the character of its athletes.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Fast Like Franz</h4>
<div class="caption">Five-time World Cup downhill champ and four-time Hahnenkamm winner Franz Klammer had already established himself as the world’s fastest downhill racer by the time he left the start shack of the 1976 Olympic downhill course in Innsbruck. But his wild, edge-of-sanity run in front of his home-nation crowd, and more significantly a live worldwide television audience, sealed his reputation as the most exciting athlete of the decade.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Hear Her Roar</h4>
<div class="caption">More than just a pretty face, three-time freestyle world champion Suzy Chaffee was a tireless advocate for equal rights for women in sports. Though most recognized for her lip-balm ads, which earned her the nickname Suzy ChapStick, she was also the first woman on the U.S. Olympic Committee board and served on the President’s Council on Physical Fitness.</div>
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<h4 class="title">The High Life</h4>
<div class="caption">Four years after claiming the Guinness record for the world’s steepest ski descent in the 60-degree Gervasutti Couloir, the father of extreme skiing, Sylvain Saudan, made the longest vertical ski descent—4,500 m (2.7 miles)—on Mt. McKinley in 1972.</div>
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<h4 class="title">$10 Lift Ticker</h4>
<div class="caption">Forty-some years ago, a single-day lift ticket at Aspen Mountain would set you back $7, roughly the national average in 1969–70.&nbsp; That year, a few resorts, including Stowe, Vt., which boasted a gondola, charged a whopping $10, prompting SKI to pose the question “Will the $10 lift ticket kill skiing?” We now know the answer. Last season, the average price of a single-day lift ticket in the U.S. was $77.</div>
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<p>A generation of long-haired, pot-smoking, acrobatic hotdoggers sought to liberate skiing from what they perceived to be its long imprisonment. And they sure succeeded. Freestyle infl uenced every aspect of the sport—its language, apparel and gear, particularly ski graphics, sidecuts and lengths. The first national exhibition championship was held in 1971 in Waterville Valley, N.H. Long-forgotten cross-country touring reemerged, as did the telemark turn.</p><p>In alpine, speed was the thing: Franz Klammer’s spectacular 1976 Olympic downhill run, Robert Redford’s Downhill Racer, Steve McKinney’s breaking through the 200-kph (124 mph) speed barrier.</p><p>Warren Witherell’s How the Racers Ski made the carved turn everyone’s goal. Instructors adopted Tim Gallwey’s Inner Game mental imagery to speed learning.</p><p>Winter driving improved when Jeep and Subaru popularized the four-wheeldrive car. Vail and Aspen got a lot closer in driving time from Denver with the opening of the Eisenhower Tunnel, which bypassed 12,000-foot Loveland Pass. Building or expanding ski areas on public land became more difficult after Congress and President Nixon passed the 1970 National Environmental Policy Act, requiring public hearings and environmental impact statements. Colorado voters caused Denver to renege on hosting the 1976 Winter Olympics, which moved to Innsbruck. Vail homeowner Gerald Ford became the fi rst dedicated skier to occupy the White House.</p><p>A Vermont jury awarded $1.5 million to a novice skier injured at Stratton, triggering a crisis in ski-area insurance that would infl ate the price of lift tickets in the years to come.</p>
55574133http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/playboy.jpgSkiing really gets sexy
<p>“Playboy and skiing both devote themselves to the pleasures of the body,” read a 1969 article in SKI, suggesting the new Lake Geneva, Wis., Playboy Club-Hotel and ski resort was a manifest union. Through the ’70s, the club and its bunnies were symbols of skiing’s sophisticated sex appeal. The club closed in 1981, but skiing’s sex appeal continues to sell the sport, if not exactly with a puffy tail.</p>
55574138http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/waynewong.jpgFree to Fly
<p>With his legendary 1971 ski film, The Performers, Dick Barrymore inspired young skiers—like Wayne Wong—to throw off the shackles of restrictive European ski techniques once and for all. Wong became the face—and hair—of American freestyle skiing in the ’70s.</p>
55574134http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/skiballet.jpgWhat, no tutus?
<p>“Unlike a freestyle collection of bodybruising tricks, ski ballet is virtually a new sport, stringing stunts together with grace and fluidity...skiing at its beautiful best,” wrote ski-ballet champ Genia Fuller in a 1974 issue of SKI. Despite the meteoric rise of stars like racer turned ski ballerina Suzy Chaffee in the mid-’70s and ski ballet’s inclusion as a demonstration event in the 1988 and 1992 Olympics, the sport is now largely a relic, outshone and outlived by the new, higher-adrenaline slopeside and park-and-pipe disciplines.</p>
55574131http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/downhillracer.jpgThe Story of a Skier
<p>A month before Downhill Racer was released, SKI’s Morten Lund hailed its star, Robert Redford, as the first artist to adequately and appropriately “immortalize” the ski racer. Unlike previous ski films, which merely showed “spectacular scenery and good turns to both sides” or, as Redford himself put it, used skiing “as a background for a dopey teenage party film,” Downhill Racer was about the drama of the sport and the character of its athletes.</p>
55574132http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/franz.jpgFast Like Franz
<p>Five-time World Cup downhill champ and four-time Hahnenkamm winner Franz Klammer had already established himself as the world’s fastest downhill racer by the time he left the start shack of the 1976 Olympic downhill course in Innsbruck. But his wild, edge-of-sanity run in front of his home-nation crowd, and more significantly a live worldwide television audience, sealed his reputation as the most exciting athlete of the decade.</p>
55574136http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/suzy.jpgHear Her Roar
<p>More than just a pretty face, three-time freestyle world champion Suzy Chaffee was a tireless advocate for equal rights for women in sports. Though most recognized for her lip-balm ads, which earned her the nickname Suzy ChapStick, she was also the first woman on the U.S. Olympic Committee board and served on the President’s Council on Physical Fitness.</p>
55574135http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/slyvain.jpgThe High Life
<p>Four years after claiming the Guinness record for the world’s steepest ski descent in the 60-degree Gervasutti Couloir, the father of extreme skiing, Sylvain Saudan, made the longest vertical ski descent—4,500 m (2.7 miles)—on Mt. McKinley in 1972.</p>
55574130http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/aspenglow.jpg$10 Lift Ticker
<p>Forty-some years ago, a single-day lift ticket at Aspen Mountain would set you back $7, roughly the national average in 1969–70.&nbsp; That year, a few resorts, including Stowe, Vt., which boasted a gondola, charged a whopping $10, prompting SKI to pose the question “Will the $10 lift ticket kill skiing?” We now know the answer. Last season, the average price of a single-day lift ticket in the U.S. was $77.</p>
Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:58:24 +0000sallyfranck55574129 at http://www.skinet.com/skiSkier of the Decade: Bob Lange, 1970'shttp://www.skinet.com/ski/article/skier-decade-bob-lange-1970s?lnk=rss&loc=75th-anniversary-issue
<p>In 1970 most skiers worldwide were still wearing leather boots; by the end of the decade their feet were encased in plastic. Although Bob Lange worked from 1957 to 1966 to invent the plastic boot, his impact on the sport was only truly realized in the 1970s. His design—a lower shell containing the foot and an upper clamshell overlap or cuff connected to it by a hinge or rivet—remains the basis of the boot the world skis in today. He made a boot sole the width of the ski and pioneered the adjustable buckle.</p>
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<h4 class="title">Fred Lindholm; Alta, Utah</h4>
<div class="caption"><strong>Photographer:</strong> Fred Lindholm<p><strong>Location:</strong> Alta, Utah, 1959</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> Even at 50, longtime Alta ski-school director Alf Engen was a kid at heart, always goofing around when he was on snow. Credited with inventing powder-skiing technique, Engen could turn any slope into his personal playground.</p></div>
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<h4 class="title">Joshua Paul; Krasnaya, Poland</h4>
<div class="caption"><strong>Photographer:</strong> Joshua Paul<p><strong>Location:</strong> Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, 2004</p><p><strong>Backstory: </strong>At most U.S. resorts, uniformed, happy-to-help mountain hosts welcome guests. Before it was selected as a venue for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Krasnaya Polyana had a monkey in a jumpsuit greeting visitors in the ski area’s parking lot.</p></div>
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<h4 class="title">Blake Jorgenson; Whistler, B.C.</h4>
<div class="caption">Photographer: Blake Jorgenson Location: Whistler, B.C., 2007 Backstory: Gone-too-soon real-life action hero Shane McConkey paid tribute to his inspiration, James Bond, by re-creating the opening skichase scene of The Spy Who Loved Me for Matchstick Productions’ film Seven Sunny Days.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Grant Gunderson; Glacier, WA</h4>
<div class="caption"><strong>Photographer:</strong> Grant Gunderson<p><strong>Location:</strong> Glacier, Wash., 2009</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> When a hundred-year avalanche deposited 30 feet of snow on rainforest-lined Highway 512 and blocked access to nearby Mt. Baker, Gunderson and skier Zach Giffin didn’t sweat it. They just set up this roadside mossy-tree jib.</p></div>
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<h4 class="title">Keoki Flagg; Chugach Mountains, Alaska</h4>
<div class="caption"><strong>Photographer: </strong>Keoki Flagg<p><strong>Location:</strong> Chugach Mountains, Alaska, 1999</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> If you’re in the market for a glory shot like this one, you’ll need three things: a heli-bump to the top of the Sphinx, photographer Keoki Flagg on shutter duty and nerves of steel.</p></div>
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<h4 class="title">Wade McKoy; Grand Targhee, Wyoming</h4>
<div class="caption"><strong>Photographer:</strong> Wade McKoy<p><strong>Location:</strong> Grand Targhee, Wyo., 2006</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> Luckily, huckmaster Jamie Pierre landed this record 255-foot freefall on his head. That’s right, McKoy’s remarkable photo sequence shows Pierre’s deliberate back-rotation. Experts say the fact that Pierre didn’t land on his feet is precisely why he walked away unscathed.</p></div>
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<h4 class="title">Lori Adamski Peek; Schweitzer, Idaho</h4>
<div class="caption"><strong>Photographer: </strong>Lori Adamski Peek<p><strong>Location: </strong>Schweitzer, Idaho, 2008</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> Competing against racers who weren’t alive when he won Olympic gold in 1984, 50-something Phil Mahre didn’t let his age— or hairline—deter him from a comeback bid a quartercentury after he dominated the World Cup circuit.</p></div>
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<h4 class="title">Scott Markewitz; Snowbird, Utah</h4>
<div class="caption"><strong>Photographer: </strong>Scott Markewitz<p><strong>Location:</strong> Snowbird, Utah, 2008</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> One of skiing’s top photographers, Markewitz just might spend more time on snow than off. Whether shooting the sport’s biggest stars or its smallest, Markewitz always captures the pure, immutable joy of skiing.</p></div>
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<h4 class="title">Tom Plofchan; Alta, Utah</h4>
<div class="caption"><strong>Photographer:</strong> Tom Plofchan<p><strong>Location:</strong> Alta, Utah, 1964</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> As soon as Hellgate Road was cleared of avalanche debris, one-man Alta Air Force Alf Engen shot the gap, with a buddy’s 1964 Corvair parked on the blacktop for perspective. The slide made a perfect kicker for the always opportunistic Engen.</p></div>
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<h4 class="title">Chris Smith; Calgary, Alberta</h4>
<div class="caption"><strong>Photographer:</strong> Chris Smith<strong> </strong><p><strong>Location:</strong> Calgary, Alberta, 1988</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> Set against the backdrop of the Calgary skyline, ski jumpers appeared to fly over the tops of buildings as they launched off the Olympic Park jump hill.</p></div>
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<h4 class="title">Will Wissman; Haines, Alaska</h4>
<div class="caption"><strong>Photographer: </strong>Will Wissman<p><strong>Location:</strong> Haines, Alaska, 2010</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> The quickest route between two points—say, the top of a huge peak and the bottom—is a straight line. If that means blind-hucking a spine on a 45-plus-degree slope, so be it. But only if you’re Reggie Crist.</p></div>
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<h4 class="title">Central Press; Innsbruck, Austria</h4>
<div class="caption"><strong>Photographer: </strong>Central Press/ The Hulton Archive<p><strong>Location:</strong> Innsbruck, Austria, 1964</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> Press photograhpers surrounded a ski jumper they assumed had the 1964 Olympic gold medal wrapped up. Meanwhile, in the background, Veikko Kankkonen of Finland quietly landed the winning jump.</p></div>
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<h4 class="title">Carl Yarbrough; Nagano, Japan</h4>
<div class="caption"><strong>Photographer:</strong> Carl Yarbrough<p><strong>Location: </strong>Nagano, Japan, 1998</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> Millions watched in horror as Hermann Maier, airborne and inverted over the Olympic downhill course, slammed through two safety fences. But only one man captured the horror on Maier’s face. Yarbrough was mere yards from the human propeller when he snapped this famous shot.</p></div>
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<h4 class="title">Ray Atkeson; Mt. Hood, Oregon</h4>
<div class="caption"><strong>Photographer:</strong> Ray Atkeson<p><strong>Location:</strong> Mt. Hood, Ore., 1939</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> Before chairlifts, patrol sweeps and trail crews, the ski day lasted as long as the daylight. Racing nightfall, five skiers—silhouetted at dusk—squeezed every last turn from the slopes below Timberline Lodge. Some things never change.</p></div>
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<h4 class="title">Fred Lindholm; Alta, Utah </h4>
<div class="caption"><strong>Photographer:</strong> Fred Lindholm<p><strong>Location: </strong>Alta, Utah, 1961</p><p><strong>Backstory:&nbsp; </strong>Jim McConkey (left) puts on an air show with Gordon West. McConkey, once described as "the best all-around skier in the world," passed on his vision and passion to his son, the late Shane McConkey, who continued his family's legacy of irrepressibly advancing the sport.</p></div>
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http://www.skinet.com/ski/galleries/best-photographs-century#commentsGear75th Anniversary IssueCURRENT_SITE55573679http://www.skinet.com/CURRENT_SITE/files/_images/201111/bestofcentury-sk129ct_05.jpg55573745Fred Lindholm; Alta, Utah
<p><strong>Photographer:</strong> Fred Lindholm</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Alta, Utah, 1959</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> Even at 50, longtime Alta ski-school director Alf Engen was a kid at heart, always goofing around when he was on snow. Credited with inventing powder-skiing technique, Engen could turn any slope into his personal playground.</p>
Here are a few of our favorite photos. Some are famous, most are not. But all are compelling moments frozen in time. gallery55573745http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/bestofcentury-sk129ct_05.jpgFred LindholmFred Lindholm; Alta, Utah
<p><strong>Photographer:</strong> Fred Lindholm</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Alta, Utah, 1959</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> Even at 50, longtime Alta ski-school director Alf Engen was a kid at heart, always goofing around when he was on snow. Credited with inventing powder-skiing technique, Engen could turn any slope into his personal playground.</p>
55573754http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_075-091monkey.jpgJoshua PaulJoshua Paul; Krasnaya, Poland
<p><strong>Photographer:</strong> Joshua Paul</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Krasnaya Polyana, Russia, 2004</p><p><strong>Backstory: </strong>At most U.S. resorts, uniformed, happy-to-help mountain hosts welcome guests. Before it was selected as a venue for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics, Krasnaya Polyana had a monkey in a jumpsuit greeting visitors in the ski area’s parking lot.</p>
55573749http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_075-091.jpgBlake JorgensonBlake Jorgenson; Whistler, B.C.
<p>Photographer: Blake Jorgenson Location: Whistler, B.C., 2007 Backstory: Gone-too-soon real-life action hero Shane McConkey paid tribute to his inspiration, James Bond, by re-creating the opening skichase scene of The Spy Who Loved Me for Matchstick Productions’ film Seven Sunny Days.</p>
55573750http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_075-091gunfy.jpgGrant GundersonGrant Gunderson; Glacier, WA
<p><strong>Photographer:</strong> Grant Gunderson</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Glacier, Wash., 2009</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> When a hundred-year avalanche deposited 30 feet of snow on rainforest-lined Highway 512 and blocked access to nearby Mt. Baker, Gunderson and skier Zach Giffin didn’t sweat it. They just set up this roadside mossy-tree jib.</p>
55573752http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_075-091keoki.jpgKeoki FlaggKeoki Flagg; Chugach Mountains, Alaska
<p><strong>Photographer: </strong>Keoki Flagg</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Chugach Mountains, Alaska, 1999</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> If you’re in the market for a glory shot like this one, you’ll need three things: a heli-bump to the top of the Sphinx, photographer Keoki Flagg on shutter duty and nerves of steel.</p>
55573747http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/mckoy-j_pierre_record.jpgWade McKoyWade McKoy; Grand Targhee, Wyoming
<p><strong>Photographer:</strong> Wade McKoy</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Grand Targhee, Wyo., 2006</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> Luckily, huckmaster Jamie Pierre landed this record 255-foot freefall on his head. That’s right, McKoy’s remarkable photo sequence shows Pierre’s deliberate back-rotation. Experts say the fact that Pierre didn’t land on his feet is precisely why he walked away unscathed.</p>
55573755http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_075-091peek.jpgLori Adamski PeekLori Adamski Peek; Schweitzer, Idaho
<p><strong>Photographer: </strong>Lori Adamski Peek</p><p><strong>Location: </strong>Schweitzer, Idaho, 2008</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> Competing against racers who weren’t alive when he won Olympic gold in 1984, 50-something Phil Mahre didn’t let his age— or hairline—deter him from a comeback bid a quartercentury after he dominated the World Cup circuit.</p>
55573753http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_075-091markewitz.jpgScott MarkewitzScott Markewitz; Snowbird, Utah
<p><strong>Photographer: </strong>Scott Markewitz</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Snowbird, Utah, 2008</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> One of skiing’s top photographers, Markewitz just might spend more time on snow than off. Whether shooting the sport’s biggest stars or its smallest, Markewitz always captures the pure, immutable joy of skiing.</p>
55573748http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/plofchan.jpgTom Plofchan; Alta, Utah
<p><strong>Photographer:</strong> Tom Plofchan</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Alta, Utah, 1964</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> As soon as Hellgate Road was cleared of avalanche debris, one-man Alta Air Force Alf Engen shot the gap, with a buddy’s 1964 Corvair parked on the blacktop for perspective. The slide made a perfect kicker for the always opportunistic Engen.</p>
55573756http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_075-091seattle.jpgChris Smith; Calgary, Alberta
<p><strong>Photographer:</strong> Chris Smith<strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Calgary, Alberta, 1988</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> Set against the backdrop of the Calgary skyline, ski jumpers appeared to fly over the tops of buildings as they launched off the Olympic Park jump hill.</p>
55573757http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_075-091wissman.jpgWill WissmanWill Wissman; Haines, Alaska
<p><strong>Photographer: </strong>Will Wissman</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Haines, Alaska, 2010</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> The quickest route between two points—say, the top of a huge peak and the bottom—is a straight line. If that means blind-hucking a spine on a 45-plus-degree slope, so be it. But only if you’re Reggie Crist.</p>
55573751http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_075-091jump.jpgCentral Press; Innsbruck, Austria
<p><strong>Photographer: </strong>Central Press/ The Hulton Archive</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Innsbruck, Austria, 1964</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> Press photograhpers surrounded a ski jumper they assumed had the 1964 Olympic gold medal wrapped up. Meanwhile, in the background, Veikko Kankkonen of Finland quietly landed the winning jump.</p>
55573746http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/maier.jpgCarl Yarbrough; Nagano, Japan
<p><strong>Photographer:</strong> Carl Yarbrough</p><p><strong>Location: </strong>Nagano, Japan, 1998</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> Millions watched in horror as Hermann Maier, airborne and inverted over the Olympic downhill course, slammed through two safety fences. But only one man captured the horror on Maier’s face. Yarbrough was mere yards from the human propeller when he snapped this famous shot.</p>
55573744http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/atkeson.jpgRay Atkeson, US Forest ServiceRay Atkeson; Mt. Hood, Oregon
<p><strong>Photographer:</strong> Ray Atkeson</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Mt. Hood, Ore., 1939</p><p><strong>Backstory:</strong> Before chairlifts, patrol sweeps and trail crews, the ski day lasted as long as the daylight. Racing nightfall, five skiers—silhouetted at dusk—squeezed every last turn from the slopes below Timberline Lodge. Some things never change.</p>
55573758http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/skilif~1.jpgFred LindholmFred Lindholm; Alta, Utah
<p><strong>Photographer:</strong> Fred Lindholm</p><p><strong>Location: </strong>Alta, Utah, 1961</p><p><strong>Backstory:&nbsp; </strong>Jim McConkey (left) puts on an air show with Gordon West. McConkey, once described as "the best all-around skier in the world," passed on his vision and passion to his son, the late Shane McConkey, who continued his family's legacy of irrepressibly advancing the sport.</p>
Mon, 07 Nov 2011 23:30:08 +0000sallyfranck55573679 at http://www.skinet.com/skiSkier of the Decade: Jean-Claude Killy, 1960shttp://www.skinet.com/ski/article/skier-decade-jean-claude-killy-1960s?lnk=rss&loc=75th-anniversary-issue
<p>Among alpine racers of the past 50 years, none—not even Hermann Maier nor Ingemar Stenmark—has matched the record set by Jean-Claude Killy. In fact, no modern athlete may ever duplicate Killy’s dominance of a sport. The Frenchman won more than 70 percent of all the races on the 1967 World Cup circuit. In a single winter, he won all five World Cup downhills, including the perilously steep Hahnenkamm, three slalom races and four of five giant slaloms. He also won all three alpine skiing gold medals at the 1968 Games.</p>
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<h4 class="title">1960s</h4>
<div class="caption">It was skiing’s golden age: 10 years so concentrated with innovations it would take a book to describe them all adequately. Bob Smith invented the double-lens ski goggle, which no longer fogged. New snapping brakes on bindings separated skier from windmilling ski. Wood and metal skis were replaced by epoxy and fiberglass. The plastic boot was created. A good skier could now carve most of a turn purely on edge.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Double play</h4>
<div class="caption">Under U.S. Ski Team coach Bob Beattie, Billy Kidd (left) and Jimmie Heuga became the first American men to win Olympic medals—silver and bronze, respectively, in the 1964 slalom at Innsbruck. Six years later, Heuga was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. He went on to found the Jimmie Heuga Center to battle MS.</div>
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<h4 class="title">It's not how you ski, it's whether you win or lose</h4>
<div class="caption">With extreme skiing and ski ballet in their infancy and freestyle competitions still decades away, style didn’t count for much: speed was the metric that really mattered. In 1968 ski created the National Standard Race (NASTAR), a golf-like handicap system that let recreational skiers compete against each other and the pros.</div>
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<h4 class="title">We have liftoff</h4>
<div class="caption">In 1965, Hans Gmoser started what would become Canadian Mountain Holidays. Flying out of Radium, B.C., Gmoser’s bird carried skiers to the previously inaccessible Bugaboos. Gmoser wasn’t the first to guide ski clients via chopper, but CMH was the first commercially successful operation and is credited with kicking off the heli-ski movement.</div>
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<h4 class="title">An unlikely victor</h4>
<div class="caption">When the IOC selected all-but-unknown Squaw Valley to host the 1960 Winter Olympics, Alex Cushing’s California ski hill had a single chairlift, 50 hotel rooms and little else. In less than five years, the resort—and the sporting venues— rose from the valley floor. The games were a huge success (and the first to use a computer to tabulate results).</div>
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<h4 class="title">Snow domes</h4>
<div class="caption">Skiing in the 1940s and 1950s was not yet a mainstream sport. In 1960, Aspen inventor Ray Hall took the mountain to the masses at the Winter Sports Show in New York City, where he introduced his ski deck, a giant treadmill-like machine designed to give anyone, anywhere, the chance to ski.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Camelot on skis</h4>
<div class="caption">America’s luxe winter resorts— Sun Valley, Aspen and Sugarbush—and its regal first lady were the embodiment of glamour in the 1960s and a match made in publicity heaven. After JFK was assassinated in 1963, Jackie continued to ski with her family as the nation watched and healed.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Fashion Forward</h4>
<div class="caption">Maria Bogner’s stretchy ski pants led the way. By the late 1960s, skiwear design approached high fashion. Luxurious fabrics, flattering silhouettes and fancy accents replaced wool sweaters and tweed trousers. Skiing had found its style.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Watch and Learn</h4>
<div class="caption">For 30 minutes in 1964, skiing enjoyed the biggest group lesson in the history of the sport. Ten million Americans tuned in to NBC’s Tonight Show to see young funnyman Johnny Carson get schooled by an angelic-looking but no-nonsense Austrian ski instructor named Kitty Falger. Despite Carson’s hijinks on the 12-foot plasticcovered ramp, Americans fell deeper in love with skiing—and ski instructors.</div>
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<p>It was skiing’s golden age: 10 years so concentrated with innovations it would take a book to describe them all adequately. Bob Smith invented the double-lens ski goggle, which no longer fogged. New snapping brakes on bindings separated skier from windmilling ski. Wood and metal skis were replaced by epoxy and fiberglass. The plastic boot was created. A good skier could now carve most of a turn purely on edge.</p><p>The decade opened with fireworks at the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, where for the first time a gold medal was won on nonwood skis and the Games were telecast live across America. Professionals formed their own race-forcash circuit. In 1967, Jean- Claude Killy and Nancy Greene were crowned best in the world in the inaugural season of the World Cup.</p><p>Skiers could be rated by NASTAR, the National Standard Race, the equivalent of golf’s handicap rating. The Professional Ski Instructors of America organized, and it promptly found its American ski technique caught up in a swirl of disputes with other teaching methods, such as Walter Foeger’s “Natur Teknik,” French author Georges Joubert’s serpent and avalement, and GLM— the graduated-length method, by which skiers learned by progressing from shorter to longer skis.</p><p>A lift ticket in 1965 cost $4.18 ($29.95 in today’s dollars). Skiers were doubling in number every five or six years. The National Ski Areas Association formed. A dozen new resorts opened, including Vail, Breckenridge, Stratton, Steamboat, Park City, Jackson Hole, Crested Butte and Whistler. Snowmass revealed skiing’s future by building a slopeside bed base with condominiums. Heliskiing weeks started in the spectacular Bugaboo range of British Columbia.</p><p>Choreographer and dancer Phil Gerard invented ski ballet. The film <em>Ski the Outer Limits</em>, with psychedelic overlays of acrobatic skiing, introduced a novel kind of ski cinematography. And French “skier of the impossible” Sylvain Saudan opened the world’s eyes to a new mountain phenomenon: extreme skiing. —J.F.</p>
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<p>Under U.S. Ski Team coach Bob Beattie, Billy Kidd (left) and Jimmie Heuga became the first American men to win Olympic medals—silver and bronze, respectively, in the 1964 slalom at Innsbruck. Six years later, Heuga was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. He went on to found the Jimmie Heuga Center to battle MS.</p>
55573654http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/60s3.jpgIt's not how you ski, it's whether you win or lose
<p>With extreme skiing and ski ballet in their infancy and freestyle competitions still decades away, style didn’t count for much: speed was the metric that really mattered. In 1968 ski created the National Standard Race (NASTAR), a golf-like handicap system that let recreational skiers compete against each other and the pros.</p>
55573655http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/60s4.jpgWe have liftoff
<p>In 1965, Hans Gmoser started what would become Canadian Mountain Holidays. Flying out of Radium, B.C., Gmoser’s bird carried skiers to the previously inaccessible Bugaboos. Gmoser wasn’t the first to guide ski clients via chopper, but CMH was the first commercially successful operation and is credited with kicking off the heli-ski movement.</p>
55573656http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/60s5.jpgAn unlikely victor
<p>When the IOC selected all-but-unknown Squaw Valley to host the 1960 Winter Olympics, Alex Cushing’s California ski hill had a single chairlift, 50 hotel rooms and little else. In less than five years, the resort—and the sporting venues— rose from the valley floor. The games were a huge success (and the first to use a computer to tabulate results).</p>
55573657http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/60s6.jpgSnow domes
<p>Skiing in the 1940s and 1950s was not yet a mainstream sport. In 1960, Aspen inventor Ray Hall took the mountain to the masses at the Winter Sports Show in New York City, where he introduced his ski deck, a giant treadmill-like machine designed to give anyone, anywhere, the chance to ski.</p>
55573658http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/60s7.jpgCamelot on skis
<p>America’s luxe winter resorts— Sun Valley, Aspen and Sugarbush—and its regal first lady were the embodiment of glamour in the 1960s and a match made in publicity heaven. After JFK was assassinated in 1963, Jackie continued to ski with her family as the nation watched and healed.</p>
55573659http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/60s8.jpgFashion Forward
<p>Maria Bogner’s stretchy ski pants led the way. By the late 1960s, skiwear design approached high fashion. Luxurious fabrics, flattering silhouettes and fancy accents replaced wool sweaters and tweed trousers. Skiing had found its style.</p>
55573660http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/60s9.jpgWatch and Learn
<p>For 30 minutes in 1964, skiing enjoyed the biggest group lesson in the history of the sport. Ten million Americans tuned in to NBC’s Tonight Show to see young funnyman Johnny Carson get schooled by an angelic-looking but no-nonsense Austrian ski instructor named Kitty Falger. Despite Carson’s hijinks on the 12-foot plasticcovered ramp, Americans fell deeper in love with skiing—and ski instructors.</p>
Tue, 01 Nov 2011 22:09:17 +0000sallyfranck55573651 at http://www.skinet.com/skiSkier of the Decade: Wayne Pierce, 1950shttp://www.skinet.com/ski/article/skier-decade-wayne-pierce-1950s?lnk=rss&loc=75th-anniversary-issue
<p>Sixty years ago, winter was either a powder heaven or a cold, snowless hell. Drought winters presented a real environmental barrier to creating a popular mass recreation sport.</p>
<p>In 1949–50, three aircraft-engineersturned- ski-makers in Connecticut were almost out of business, their metal skis unsellable. Arthur Hunt, Wayne Pierce and Dave richey of TEy Manufacturing were trying to figure out what to do next in another snowless winter.</p>
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<div class="caption">More than 1,000 ropetows ran up America’s mountains in the mid-1950s, but only 78 ski areas were equipped with wire-cable lifts—chairlifts, pomas and T-bars. Destination resorts like Sun Valley and Stowe, with restaurants, bars, hotels and lodges, were scarce; people flew to Europe for a big-mountain, amenity-filled ski vacation.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Ski like Stein</h4>
<div class="caption">Statuesque Norwegian Stein Eriksen, an Olympic gold medalist, came to the U.S. in 1954 to teach his signature turn—skis together, body angulated, edges high—to adoring fans and students around the country. He eventually settled in Deer Valley, which he helped build in the 1980s.</div>
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<div class="caption">In 1952, Munich’s Maria Bogner created the stretch pant, provocatively revealing a female skier’s curves, hitherto buried under bulky wool. Stretch pants would persist into the 1980s, helping to define the sport’s undeniable sex appeal.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Made in America</h4>
<div class="caption">Resort snowmaking systems— first installed by Walt Schoenknecht at Mount Snow—and mechanized slope groomers—the Bradley Packer, brainchild of Winter Park’s Steve Bradley—gave U.S. resorts a distinct advantage over European areas.</div>
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<h4 class="title">The Blitz from Kitz</h4>
<div class="caption">Austria’s Toni Sailer won a record three gold medals at the 1956 Cortina Winter Olympics. With movie-star good looks, Sailer pursued an acting and singing career after retiring from the sport.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Easy street</h4>
<div class="caption">Dubbed “the cheater” because it was so much easier to turn than a wooden ski, Howard Head’s Standard was released in 1950 and cost $85 “at good ski shops.” ads for the metal-plastic construction proclaimed, “Can’t warp. Can’t lose camber. Guaranteed against breaking.”</div>
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<h4 class="title">Jump season</h4>
<div class="caption">Balmy summer weather can’t distract skiers from their love of skiing. In the summer of 1954, the chicago norge Ski Club organized an international jumping competition. Using 12 miles of steel tubing and 200 tons of chopped ice, they built a 194-foot-high ski jump at Soldier Field. Sitting in 80-degree heat, 30,000 people watched the competitors launch off the ramp, overshoot the too-short 75-foot outrun, and crash into hay bales set up as a safety barrier in what could be viewed as a harbinger of the X Games.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Oslo Games 1952</h4>
<div class="caption">Nineteen-year-old phenom Andrea Mead Lawrence became the only American skier—male or female—in the team’s history to win two gold medals (slalom and giant slalom) in a single Olympics.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Aspen's debut</h4>
<div class="caption">With a single chairlift and fewer than five years of operation under its belt, Aspen hosted the 1950 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. This was a huge coup for U.S. skiing, as it marked the fi rst time in the event’s 20-year history that the races were held outside of Europe.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Trailblazer</h4>
<div class="caption">In 1959, Buddy Werner became the first American— one of only two to this day—to win the legendary Hahnenkamm downhill. Although the three-time Olympian never won an Olympic medal, he was the first American to regularly challenge, and often beat, European racers. Werner’s spectacular successes and crashes set the stage for a legitimate U.S. Men’s team.</div>
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<p>More than 1,000 ropetows ran up America’s mountains in the mid-1950s, but only 78 ski areas were equipped with wire-cable lifts—chairlifts, pomas and T-bars. Destination resorts like Sun Valley and Stowe, with restaurants, bars, hotels and lodges, were scarce; people flew to Europe for a big-mountain, amenity-filled ski vacation.</p><p>Then change came suddenly. Scores of ropetow hills upgraded: In a single year, as many as 200 chair and surface lifts were added. To guarantee better snow surfaces, ski areas installed two homegrown inventions of the 1950s: snowmaking and slope grooming, vaulting ahead of European slopes in technology.</p><p>But lift lines remained long. Ski-area expansion couldn’t keep up with the tsunami of young postwar Baby Boomers entering a sport that had suddenly become sexy.</p><p>Howard Head produced the first viable metal ski, transforming the sport. Putting on boots got easier when buckles replaced laces. Leg fractures and sprains dropped dramatically with the introduction of better release bindings, including designs from Cubco, Marker and Look. A Sun Valley ski repairman, Ed Scott, devised the first aluminumshaft pole, with a swing weight that revolutionized the act of triggering a turn. To preview products for retailers, the first ski industry trade show took place in 1953.</p><p>The reverse shoulder turn used by slalom racers evolved into a popular recreation turn: wedeln, a series of short, down-thefall- line direction changes. America’s most successful racer of the decade, Brooks Dodge, revealed the secrets of “How to Ski the New Way” in SKI’s October 1956 issue—a scoop. —J.F.</p>
55573639http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/50s1.jpgSki like Stein
<p>Statuesque Norwegian Stein Eriksen, an Olympic gold medalist, came to the U.S. in 1954 to teach his signature turn—skis together, body angulated, edges high—to adoring fans and students around the country. He eventually settled in Deer Valley, which he helped build in the 1980s.</p>
55573640http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/50s2.jpgFigure Flattering
<p>In 1952, Munich’s Maria Bogner created the stretch pant, provocatively revealing a female skier’s curves, hitherto buried under bulky wool. Stretch pants would persist into the 1980s, helping to define the sport’s undeniable sex appeal.</p>
55573641http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/50s3.jpgMade in America
<p>Resort snowmaking systems— first installed by Walt Schoenknecht at Mount Snow—and mechanized slope groomers—the Bradley Packer, brainchild of Winter Park’s Steve Bradley—gave U.S. resorts a distinct advantage over European areas.</p>
55573642http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/50s5.jpgThe Blitz from Kitz
<p>Austria’s Toni Sailer won a record three gold medals at the 1956 Cortina Winter Olympics. With movie-star good looks, Sailer pursued an acting and singing career after retiring from the sport.</p>
55573643http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/50s6.jpgEasy street
<p>Dubbed “the cheater” because it was so much easier to turn than a wooden ski, Howard Head’s Standard was released in 1950 and cost $85 “at good ski shops.” ads for the metal-plastic construction proclaimed, “Can’t warp. Can’t lose camber. Guaranteed against breaking.”</p>
55573644http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/50s7.jpgJump season
<p>Balmy summer weather can’t distract skiers from their love of skiing. In the summer of 1954, the chicago norge Ski Club organized an international jumping competition. Using 12 miles of steel tubing and 200 tons of chopped ice, they built a 194-foot-high ski jump at Soldier Field. Sitting in 80-degree heat, 30,000 people watched the competitors launch off the ramp, overshoot the too-short 75-foot outrun, and crash into hay bales set up as a safety barrier in what could be viewed as a harbinger of the X Games.</p>
55573645http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/50s8.jpgOslo Games 1952
<p>Nineteen-year-old phenom Andrea Mead Lawrence became the only American skier—male or female—in the team’s history to win two gold medals (slalom and giant slalom) in a single Olympics.</p>
55573646http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/50s9.jpgAspen's debut
<p>With a single chairlift and fewer than five years of operation under its belt, Aspen hosted the 1950 FIS Alpine World Ski Championships. This was a huge coup for U.S. skiing, as it marked the fi rst time in the event’s 20-year history that the races were held outside of Europe.</p>
55573647http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/50s10.jpgTrailblazer
<p>In 1959, Buddy Werner became the first American— one of only two to this day—to win the legendary Hahnenkamm downhill. Although the three-time Olympian never won an Olympic medal, he was the first American to regularly challenge, and often beat, European racers. Werner’s spectacular successes and crashes set the stage for a legitimate U.S. Men’s team.</p>
Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:39:14 +0000sallyfranck55573637 at http://www.skinet.com/skiSkier of the Decade: Minnie Dole, 1940shttp://www.skinet.com/ski/article/skier-decade-minnie-dole-1940s?lnk=rss&loc=75th-anniversary-issue
<p>When America entered World War II, 4,000 ski patrolmen were dispensing first aid and helping injured skiers off the mountain. The all-volunteer patrol had been the idea of New York insurance broker C. Minot “Minnie” Dole, who witnessed a friend hit a tree and die because no one with medical skill or a proper sled was there to rescue him. Working with the Red Cross and the National Ski Association in the late 1930s, he recruited and trained ski patrols across the nation.</p>
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<div class="caption">Modern American skiing, like the magazine you’re holding, was born in the decade preceding World War II. The sport actually flourished and grew in the middle of the Great Depression that left millions unemployed, destitute and in soup lines. Forever after it would be known that not even the toughest of times could quell the passion for skiing in people’s hearts.<p>The government put the needy to work cutting ski trails. The ropetow, T-bar and chairlift were all invented. Steel edges enabled, for the first time, controlled turns on hard snow and ice.</p></div>
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<div class="caption">Thanks to the rope-tow, skiers no longer had to exhaust themselves sidestepping and hiking uphill. Now they could make dozens of runs in a day. By the end of the decade, more than 200 rope-tow hills opened—and thrived—across North America.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Light as a feather</h4>
<div class="caption">Sixteen years after he opened his first outdoor retail shop in Seattle, Eddie Bauer created the Skyliner, an innovative quilted goose-down jacket that was warmer and lighter than heavy wool parkas. A few years later, he started making jackets and down sleeping bags for the war effort. His was the only private label on military issue garments during WWii.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Demo days</h4>
<div class="caption">In 1935, the Boston garden hosted a consumer ski show, where retailers and the public could view the latest ski products. The following year, at new York’s Madison Square Garden, 80,000 spectators came to watch skiing stunts and technique demonstrations on indoor slopes covered with shaved ice.</div>
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<div class="caption">Although a triumphant milestone for the sport of skiing, as downhill and slalom made their Olympic debuts, the 1936 Winter Games in Garmisch, Germany, were a political and athletic spectacle that drew a temporary curtain over Hitler’s plans— unfolding, in some cases, within a few miles of the Olympic venues.</div>
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<div class="caption">Tens of thousands of enthusiasts— first in Montreal, then soon after in new York, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake and San Francisco— boarded weekend ski trains to the mountains. The joint was jumping.</div>
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<div class="caption">When Sun Valley opened in 1936, it brought together people who in any other setting wouldn’t have commingled. Here classism had no place. Movie stars shared chairlifts— and dinner tables—with the employees. In some cases, they even married them. Pictured here: Actress Claudette Colbert and ski instructor Otto Lang.</div>
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<div class="caption">A product of the Federal Works Progress Administration, the magnificent Timberline Lodge in Oregon’s mountains put hundreds of jobless men, many of them skilled artists, back to work in the mid-1930s. Ray Atkeson’s iconic midnight photo (taken a decade later) hauntingly juxtaposes the warmth of the lodge against the stark isolation of the snowy mountain setting.</div>
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<div class="caption">Inspired during a ski trip to europe in 1928, Kate Peckett returned to her parents’ New Hampshire inn and created America’s first Arlberg Ski School. in 1935, she recruited legendary St. Anton instructor Otto Lang to lead the program. soon other European-trained instructors fl cked to the U.S., helping to spread their love of skiing— and the mountains—from coast to coast.</div>
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<div class="caption">U.S. Olympic skier Alexander Bright wasn’t the first to conceive of an aerial tram that would carry U.S. skiers up the mountain, but he was the first to make it happen. After surveying sites throughout the White Mountains, Bright’s team identified the Franconia Notch area as the most favorable. In 1938, a tram constructed by the American Steel Wire Company began whisking skiers up New Hampshire’s Cannon Mountain.</div>
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http://www.skinet.com/ski/galleries/decades-1930s#commentsGearPeopleResorts75th Anniversary IssueCURRENT_SITE55573610http://www.skinet.com/CURRENT_SITE/files/_images/201111/30s4thumb.jpg5557360930s thumbSkiing shed light and hope on America's darkest hour. gallery55573613http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/30s3.jpg1930s
<p>Modern American skiing, like the magazine you’re holding, was born in the decade preceding World War II. The sport actually flourished and grew in the middle of the Great Depression that left millions unemployed, destitute and in soup lines. Forever after it would be known that not even the toughest of times could quell the passion for skiing in people’s hearts.</p><p>The government put the needy to work cutting ski trails. The ropetow, T-bar and chairlift were all invented. Steel edges enabled, for the first time, controlled turns on hard snow and ice.</p><p>In Seattle, Hjalmar Hvam invented the first marketable release binding, promising a safer future. Also in Seattle, a young newspaperman named Alf Nydin launched a magazine called SKI, publishing a single issue in the winter of 1935–36.</p><p>On the slopes, novices learned how to turn via rigid stages, from snowplow to stem Christie. The progression, called the Arlberg technique, devised by St. Anton native Hannes Schneider, was taught in ski schools mostly headed by Europeans, and officially sanctified when he arrived in North Conway, N.H., in 1939.</p><p>America hosted the 1932 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid, but they were limited to cross-country races and jumping. Downhill and slalom entered the Games for the first time in 1936 in Germany. That same winter at Sun Valley, railroad magnate Averell Harriman built the first American ski resort from the ground up. Two years later another millionaire, Joseph Bondurant Ryan, opened Mont Tremblant.</p><p>Department stores, such as Saks, sold wooden skis, leather boots and gabardine jackets and pants. Saks even installed an indoor ramp so customers could try out this exotic new gear. —J.F.</p>
55573614http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/30s4.jpgNeed a lift?
<p>Thanks to the rope-tow, skiers no longer had to exhaust themselves sidestepping and hiking uphill. Now they could make dozens of runs in a day. By the end of the decade, more than 200 rope-tow hills opened—and thrived—across North America.</p>
55573615http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/30s5.jpgLight as a feather
<p>Sixteen years after he opened his first outdoor retail shop in Seattle, Eddie Bauer created the Skyliner, an innovative quilted goose-down jacket that was warmer and lighter than heavy wool parkas. A few years later, he started making jackets and down sleeping bags for the war effort. His was the only private label on military issue garments during WWii.</p>
55573616http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/30s6.jpgDemo days
<p>In 1935, the Boston garden hosted a consumer ski show, where retailers and the public could view the latest ski products. The following year, at new York’s Madison Square Garden, 80,000 spectators came to watch skiing stunts and technique demonstrations on indoor slopes covered with shaved ice.</p>
55573617http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/30s7.jpgNazi Games
<p>Although a triumphant milestone for the sport of skiing, as downhill and slalom made their Olympic debuts, the 1936 Winter Games in Garmisch, Germany, were a political and athletic spectacle that drew a temporary curtain over Hitler’s plans— unfolding, in some cases, within a few miles of the Olympic venues.</p>
55573618http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/30s8.jpgRails to trails
<p>Tens of thousands of enthusiasts— first in Montreal, then soon after in new York, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Salt Lake and San Francisco— boarded weekend ski trains to the mountains. The joint was jumping.</p>
55573619http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/30s9.jpgClass divisions
<p>When Sun Valley opened in 1936, it brought together people who in any other setting wouldn’t have commingled. Here classism had no place. Movie stars shared chairlifts— and dinner tables—with the employees. In some cases, they even married them. Pictured here: Actress Claudette Colbert and ski instructor Otto Lang.</p>
55573620http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/30s10.jpgWinter Wonderland
<p>A product of the Federal Works Progress Administration, the magnificent Timberline Lodge in Oregon’s mountains put hundreds of jobless men, many of them skilled artists, back to work in the mid-1930s. Ray Atkeson’s iconic midnight photo (taken a decade later) hauntingly juxtaposes the warmth of the lodge against the stark isolation of the snowy mountain setting.</p>
55573621http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/30s11.jpgSki school's first day
<p>Inspired during a ski trip to europe in 1928, Kate Peckett returned to her parents’ New Hampshire inn and created America’s first Arlberg Ski School. in 1935, she recruited legendary St. Anton instructor Otto Lang to lead the program. soon other European-trained instructors fl cked to the U.S., helping to spread their love of skiing— and the mountains—from coast to coast.</p>
55573622http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/30s12.jpgSkiers go airborne
<p>U.S. Olympic skier Alexander Bright wasn’t the first to conceive of an aerial tram that would carry U.S. skiers up the mountain, but he was the first to make it happen. After surveying sites throughout the White Mountains, Bright’s team identified the Franconia Notch area as the most favorable. In 1938, a tram constructed by the American Steel Wire Company began whisking skiers up New Hampshire’s Cannon Mountain.</p>
Tue, 01 Nov 2011 20:53:49 +0000sallyfranck55573610 at http://www.skinet.com/skiSkier of the Decade: Dick Durrance, 1930shttp://www.skinet.com/ski/article/skier-decade-dick-durrance-1930s?lnk=rss&loc=75th-anniversary-issue
<p>An exception to the superiority of European skiers in the 1930s was American Dick Durrance. As a boy, he lived and learned to ski in Garmisch- Partenkirchen, Germany. In the shadow of the Zugspitze, he won the 1932 German National Junior Championship. Before returning to America in 1933, the precocious Durrance copied a feet-together racing turn from twotime world slalom champion Toni Seelos of Austria. Durrance brought the new turn back to America as a harbinger of future technique.</p>
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<div class="caption">America's oldest magazine for skiers, SKI has passionately chronicled almost the entirety of the sport’s modern era, a time of revolutionary changes beyond anything that happened in the previous thousands of years of putting skis on snow. Ropetows, T-bars and chairlifts conveyed people uphill so they could make dozens of runs in a day just for the sheer joy of flying downhill. Whole resorts were built specifically for the sport. Massive condo construction placed beds next to the lifts. Skis and boots—no longer wood and leather—came to be made of fiberglass, epoxy and plastic.</div>
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<div class="caption">SKI not only chronicled these developments, it influenced them, adding innovations of its own. In 1935, Alf Nydin, a young Seattle reporter, decided to launch a national magazine about a niche sport. He called it SKI, publishing its first issue in 1936. Nydin, oddly enough, didn’t ski, but saw a publishing opportunity to cover the emerging sport after watching boisterous Olympic downhill tryouts on Mount Rainer. Over the next 75 years, SKI evolved along with the sport.</div>
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<div class="caption">Its mission of defending skiing’s integrity has never changed. In 1948, noted editor James Laughlin reported on the 1948 Olympic Games at St. Moritz, criticizing the ugly nationalism he observed. He and the magazine futilely wished for smaller, less commercial Olympics in the future. Laughlin was the first of a string of celebrated writers whose work appeared in SKI’s pages, including Pearl Buck, Art Buchwald, William F. Buckley Jr. and Leon Uris.</div>
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<div class="caption">American skiers read for the first time about the new short-turn wedel in 1956. The magazine sent a photographer up into Tuckerman Ravine to create sequence images of America’s best racer of the day, Brooks Dodge. Because of the steepness of the terrain, Dodge’s wedels looked more like turns that might appear in a magazine published 30 or 40 years later. It was a glimpse into the future.</div>
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<div class="caption">In the 1960s, editors grew impatient with ski schools teaching pupils on stiff six-foot skis when short skis might work better. SKI staged experimental onslope classes, starting pupils on three-foot skis, graduating them to longer skis as the week progressed. It proved that the Graduated Length Method, or GLM, worked, and it was a harbinger of the short-ski revolution.</div>
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<div class="caption">SKI published the first articles on the shock-absorbing avalement technique and on the pure carved turn. In 1968, SKI created NASTAR, skiing’s equivalent of golf’s par, with race courses now at 128 resorts in North America.</div>
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<div class="caption">When the season-long alpine World Cup circuit started
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<h4 class="title">Hotdogging</h4>
<div class="caption"> The magazine ran the first features on the radically fresh culture of hotdogging. As early as the 1960s, SKI worried about the environmental impacts of development in the mountains. It endorsed Vermont’s ban on outdoor billboards, the nation’s first. To encourage resorts to operate more sustainably, it established national environmental awards.</div>
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<h4 class="title">Looking ahead</h4>
<div class="caption">Inform. Entertain. Motivate. Make the sport better. e mission continues.<p><em>John Fry served as editor-in-chief and editorial director of SKI from 1965 to 1980 and has written about skiing for more than 55 years. His book e Story of Modern Skiing covers the revolutionary changes in the sport after World War II. Fry is the president of the International Skiing History Association.</em></p></div>
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http://www.skinet.com/ski/galleries/eight-decades-ski-history#commentsGearHow To PeopleResortsGearMountain CultureSki Resort Life75th Anniversary IssueCURRENT_SITE55573597http://www.skinet.com/CURRENT_SITE/files/_images/201111/ski1011_028-029thumb.jpg555735968 decades thumbIf the past 75 years have taught us anything, it's this: equipment trends will come and go, resorts will get bigger, technique will get better, lifts will get faster...but the love of skiing will never change. gallery55573598http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_028-029.jpgAmerica's oldest magazine for skiers
<p>America's oldest magazine for skiers, SKI has passionately chronicled almost the entirety of the sport’s modern era, a time of revolutionary changes beyond anything that happened in the previous thousands of years of putting skis on snow. Ropetows, T-bars and chairlifts conveyed people uphill so they could make dozens of runs in a day just for the sheer joy of flying downhill. Whole resorts were built specifically for the sport. Massive condo construction placed beds next to the lifts. Skis and boots—no longer wood and leather—came to be made of fiberglass, epoxy and plastic. Snow from guns covered slopes when natural snow didn’t. Giant new machines groomed it to a smooth surface. Skis became shorter, wider and more shapely. e sport even diversified into riding on either one board or two.</p>
55573599http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_028-0292.jpgSKI's founder, Alf Nydin
<p>SKI not only chronicled these developments, it influenced them, adding innovations of its own. In 1935, Alf Nydin, a young Seattle reporter, decided to launch a national magazine about a niche sport. He called it SKI, publishing its first issue in 1936. Nydin, oddly enough, didn’t ski, but saw a publishing opportunity to cover the emerging sport after watching boisterous Olympic downhill tryouts on Mount Rainer. Over the next 75 years, SKI evolved along with the sport.</p>
55573600http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_028-0293.jpgDefending skiing's integrity
<p>Its mission of defending skiing’s integrity has never changed. In 1948, noted editor James Laughlin reported on the 1948 Olympic Games at St. Moritz, criticizing the ugly nationalism he observed. He and the magazine futilely wished for smaller, less commercial Olympics in the future. Laughlin was the first of a string of celebrated writers whose work appeared in SKI’s pages, including Pearl Buck, Art Buchwald, William F. Buckley Jr. and Leon Uris.</p>
55573601http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_028-0294.jpgGlimpse into the future
<p>American skiers read for the first time about the new short-turn wedel in 1956. The magazine sent a photographer up into Tuckerman Ravine to create sequence images of America’s best racer of the day, Brooks Dodge. Because of the steepness of the terrain, Dodge’s wedels looked more like turns that might appear in a magazine published 30 or 40 years later. It was a glimpse into the future.</p>
55573602http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_028-0295.jpgOn slope classes
<p>In the 1960s, editors grew impatient with ski schools teaching pupils on stiff six-foot skis when short skis might work better. SKI staged experimental onslope classes, starting pupils on three-foot skis, graduating them to longer skis as the week progressed. It proved that the Graduated Length Method, or GLM, worked, and it was a harbinger of the short-ski revolution.</p>
55573603http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_028-0296.jpgSKI and NASTAR
<p>SKI published the first articles on the shock-absorbing avalement technique and on the pure carved turn. In 1968, SKI created NASTAR, skiing’s equivalent of golf’s par, with race courses now at 128 resorts in North America.</p>
55573604http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_028-0297.jpgNations Cup
When the season-long alpine World Cup circuit started
in 1967, SKI’s editor proposed aggregating all of the points
earned by the racers on each of the national teams. The
team with the most points won the Nations Cup, still used to
determine the world’s best alpine ski team.
55573605http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_028-0298.jpgHotdogging
<p> The magazine ran the first features on the radically fresh culture of hotdogging. As early as the 1960s, SKI worried about the environmental impacts of development in the mountains. It endorsed Vermont’s ban on outdoor billboards, the nation’s first. To encourage resorts to operate more sustainably, it established national environmental awards.</p>
55573606http://www.skinet.com/ski/files/_images/201111/ski1011_028-0299.jpgLooking ahead
<p>Inform. Entertain. Motivate. Make the sport better. e mission continues.</p><p><em>John Fry served as editor-in-chief and editorial director of SKI from 1965 to 1980 and has written about skiing for more than 55 years. His book e Story of Modern Skiing covers the revolutionary changes in the sport after World War II. Fry is the president of the International Skiing History Association.</em></p>
Tue, 01 Nov 2011 19:31:02 +0000sallyfranck55573597 at http://www.skinet.com/skiThe Future of the Environmenthttp://www.skinet.com/ski/article/future-environment?lnk=rss&loc=75th-anniversary-issue
<p>Auden Schendler is one of skiing’s greatest nags. As green guru for Aspen Ski Resorts, one of the most environmentally progressive ski areas in the world, Schendler is a loud voice urging skiers and the industry to take action against climate change. Several years back, Aspen even ran ads calling winter an endangered species. We asked Schendler about his vision—and hopes—for skiing in 2086.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.skinet.com/ski/article/future-environment" target="_blank">read more</a></p>http://www.skinet.com/ski/article/future-environment#comments75th Anniversary IssueCURRENT_SITE55570098http://www.skinet.com/CURRENT_SITE/files/_images/201109/environmentthumb.jpg55570097Future of Environment thumbWe asked Auden Schendler what he thinks about the future of the environment. articleTue, 27 Sep 2011 23:41:55 +0000sallyfranck55570098 at http://www.skinet.com/ski